Leftism ReinventedLeft leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market's tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a market driven world. Meanwhile, new, extreme parties began to promise economic protections of their own albeit in an angry, anti immigrant tone. To better